Federal prosecutors have been unable to persuade a jury on any of the spying-related prices towards an ex-CIA engineer accused of stealing reams of categorised materials – in what could also be a dry run for the case towards Julian Assange. ...

The Academy Awards went political right away because the night time's first winner, Greatest Supporting Actor Brad Pitt, 'joked' his 45 second acceptance speech was '45 seconds longer' than the Senate gave John Bolton in impeachment trial. ...

Lead Home impeachment supervisor Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Wednesday stated former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton refused to submit a sworn affidavit throughout President Trump's Senate trial about his alleged misconduct in withholding navy support to Ukraine. Schiff advised MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that after the Senate voted to not name ...

Conmen who duped rich donors into donating thousands and thousands of euro to "secret missions" utilizing Skype and a silicon masks of then-defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian are on trial in France. One of many defendants even impressed a film. ...

NEW YORK — Deborah A. Batts, the nation’s first brazenly homosexual federal decide, has died. She was 72. Batts was discovered useless on Monday, three months earlier than she was set to preside over a trial of California lawyer Michael Avenatti on prices that he cheated porn star Stormy Daniels, ...

Because the Democratic main season lastly strikes into the voting part, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been unable to reverse her slide within the polls that started final fall. In an effort to maintain the media and voters speaking about her, Warren has been resorting to more and more determined ...

In January 1999, then-Sen. Joe Biden argued strongly in opposition to the necessity to depose further witnesses or search new proof in a memo despatched to fellow Democrats forward of President Invoice Clinton’s impeachment trial. Biden circulated the four-page doc, titled “Arguments in Assist of a Abstract Impeachment Trial,” on ...

Senate Republicans have pushed by floor guidelines for President Trump’s impeachment trial, ending greater than 12 hours of contentious debate with their Democratic rivals over tips for the proceedings. ...

I’m removed from satisfied that jailing the previous Catalan chief of police, Josep Lluis Trapero, could be a wise option to settle down political tensions between Catalonia and the remainder of Spain. ...

A Canadian court docket is about to listen to a much-anticipated case on the centre of the tech and commerce warfare between the US and China, as Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou will struggle a US extradition request primarily based on fees her staff say haven't any advantage. ...